This comes as veterans across the political spectrum have been questioning why Israel is the favoured allyA key example, they said, is the US targeting of the elementary school in Minab, Iran, which killed 165 people, most of whom were children. "The intelligence on the target itself was provided to us by Israel," former Green Beret and contractor with the scandal-plagued Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Anthony Aguilar, told an audience at the National Press Club. "They knew exactly what it was," he said of the building, which had become a school in 2016. ,,,,Ray McGovern, 86, a former CIA analyst, suggested that the Pentagon broadened its list of targets in Iran based on Israeli requests. Middle East Eye has reached out to the Pentagon for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication. ,,,'They were fighting for another country'In an interview on The Shawn Ryan Show, the recently resigned top US counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, himself a former soldier, espoused similar sentiments, saying only Israel stands to gain from the US bombing Iran, because Iran is not an imminent threat to the US, but it could become a significant counterweight to Israeli firepower in the region.https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-us-soldiers-say-us-has-become-extension-israeli-foreign-policy-not-other-way-around#usa #israel #zionism
